Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.


A vessel was wrecked on Saturday off
the South Carolina coast, and tugs could
not reach her. Three men were seen in
the rigging.
The Speaker of the North Carolina AS
sembly voted on measure on Saturday as
a member, and then as presiding officer
voted again on the same question, there
being tie.
The attention of Congress has been called
to the fact that q cargo of rabbits from
Australia is en- route to this country, and
efforts are being made to prevent the pests
from being set at liberty.
Mrs Mary Austin, who advertises to
give massage treatment and improved
baths in New York, has been arrested for
Turing girls of respectable families from
their homes and causing them to lead lives
of shame.
Major G. Henry Buford, of Yarnelton,
KY, died on Friday. He was brother of
General Abe Buford and Colonel Tom
Buford, who killed Judge Elliott, and was
the last of family which had long been
prominent on the turf.
William Comstock, the oldest convict in
the New York Penitentiary, died last week.
He was sentenced in 1858 to imprisonment
for life. He was then 81 years old. Com
stock killed and butchered his father and
mother, cut out their hearts and ate them
like cannlbal.
FOREIGN.
1t is said that Won Moltke favors war
with France.
There was frmer feeling on the Euro
pean bourses on Saturday.
E. Spencer Pratt, our new Minister to
Persia, was received with unusual pomp
and ceremony by the Shah.
OF the German reserves 1900 men have
| been summoned to twelve days practice
with the new repeating rifles with which
the whole army is to be equipped.
The Guion line steamer Wyoming, bound
| for Liverpool, arrived at Halifax at a late
hour Saturday night for supply of coal,
| which she could not get in New York, ow
| ing to the strike.
Tahan Markwald, from Sedan, Prussia,
| and a citizen of the United States, was found
shot through the head and otherwise terri
bly, mutilated at his house in Delicias, So
| nora. 1t is supposed that he was murdered
| foI his money.
The school-house at st. Monique, Two
| Mountains county Canada, was destroyed
| by fire Friday night, and four young
| girls who were in it persisted in the flames,
| three daughters of Mr. Ambrose aged 10,
II and y years, and daughter of Mr..
Forget.
PACIFIC COAST.
The Pasadena people are waging war on
| the liquor traffic.
George Harrington is wanted at MERGED
| for embeZzlement.
Il. Il. Kirby has been arrested at MERGED
on charge of forgery.
The San Jose citrus fair opens to-day.
There is great activity in real estate in that
| section.
John Holland, carpenter, was seriously
injured at Castroville by being caught in
the machinery OF a pile-driver.
Two hundred and fifty thousand acres
of grazing land has been bought in Sonora
by the Whitbeck Land and Cattle Company.
VIM. Dowst, dray driver, was seriously
and perhaps fatally injured at MERGED on
Saturday while endeavoring to stop his team
from running away.
| Felipe Robes was murdered by un-
known parties at Tucson, A. T., on Friday
night. His head was split open with an
ak. His body was found next morning
The news that the House committee had
reported against the division of Colusa
county, when received at Orland on Satur-
day, caused general rejoicing, firing OF
anvils, etc.
Robert Haney, farmer, living near
Stanwood, w. T., on Puget sound, was
crushed to death while sleeping in his
cabin, by landslide, which caught the
house and destroyed it.
Andrew J. Leonard, sentenced a year age
to the penitentiary at Seattle, w. T., fol-
fifteen years for the murder of Ambrose
Patton at Freeport, was shot and killed
while attempting to escape.
A dispatch from Downieville says tina
on Friday, as George Gordon, nephew O
II. Scammon, was coming down the noun
tain to Loganville on snowshoes with VIM
Swami, he was carried away with a snow
slide short distance below the Keyston,
quartz mine. The body was found under
four feet of snow, face downward.